Of course, it is a "honeymoon" period, but still it's pleasing.
Albanese is just coming across as very competent and down to earth, without the ego of Rudd or some other past Labor figures. Indeed, all of the new cabinet is doing very well, especially in comparison with the Morrison government.
He's coming across as "plain speaking" and not willing to feed the chooks(Steve might know tha reference from Joh days). I agree with your comments about him and I hope it does herald a new tone in Australian politics. However I follow my local coalition fed mp and still the same rhetorical nonsense. From the little I have seen of the Liberals since the election I don't think they've got the memo that the election wasn't about Labor winning but about Australians taking climate change seriously and tiring of the major party rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteOptimistically ... Steve I hope the next few years is the beginning of a new political culture in this country.
BTW how is Sussan Ley deouty leader! She ripped off travel allowances and is as dull as dishwater.
We still all hate Anthony surely? Its just that the last guy was the most appalling shirker, and loathsome non-entity that the country had yet seen. Even Kevvie seems to have weathered well and is kind of inspirational when viewed in purely comparative terms.
ReplyDeleteAnthony did one amazing thing in his political career. In the early part of the century his office put out a shipping industry plan for Australia. It was AMAZING. The economics was so head and shoulders above what anyone economists at that time were speaking about openly. Had we followed this plan, we would have been a major shipping power, but without any pretensions as to knowing how long this would take us. It was so designed that EVENTUALLY whether it be in 30 years or 100 years .... eventually we would be a top dog in shipping with a very high wage shipping workforce.
Now he's not that bright. So we need to find out how he managed to arse his way into producing something that good. You see when you become a shipping power, you can then find the debt free money to put wharfs all around the coast and then become a major economic power as a rebound effect. You can also use this status to kind of leverage a great navy out of it.
So naturally the only good economic industry plan that Australia produced in a decade of Sundays has just disappeared without a trace.